About Azora
Azora Guimares helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by trauma, loss or anxiety. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable. Azora works with individuals facing relationship problems, eating and body image concerns, parenting challenges, and the effects of abuse or grief.
She uses a mix of attachment-based, client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to make sense of painful patterns. Sessions are practical and paced to the person's needs. Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused steps are used when helpful to build coping skills and emotional regulation.
How Azora works
Azora has three years of experience as a mental health professional and holds the NCPS credential. She has supported people dealing with sexual assault, domestic abuse, childhood neglect and the fallout from those experiences. She also offers focused help around adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, dissociation, and complex family of origin issues.
Her background includes work with people navigating identity and racism at work, and she has run workshops on skin colour and lived experience. She volunteers as a counsellor and phone buddy with Women's Aid, offering additional experience with domestic violence and recovery from sexual violence. Practical tools sometimes form part of her work.
Azora combines coaching skills and reflective materials to support changes in eating habits and body image. Her style is collaborative - she helps people identify what they want to change and takes small, achievable steps toward those goals.
Azora lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Azora works with
The areas below are the ones Azora selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Azora's approaches work online
Azora uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches alongside mindfulness when working online. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and closeness, which can help with relationship strain, abandonment concerns and attachment issues. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's pace to build self-understanding and confidence. Mindfulness techniques teach simple practices to manage anxiety, stress and emotional overwhelm by bringing attention to the present.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Azora will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adapts techniques over time, checking in about what helps and changing direction where needed so the work feels useful and relevant.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text messaging suit those who prefer writing or need a quick way to connect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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